Sunday night I was lamenting to some flood-weary co-workers that I probably missed my chance to try the Flying Wienie, the iconic hot dog joint at the intersection of 8th Ave SW and 1st Street SW. You can’t miss it. It has a big, yellow airplane on the roof.
Judging by its address, I figured it [...]
Rumors that I and others have been hearing lately about the watery death of the Chrome Horse Saloon on 3rd Street SE have been greatly exaggerated, manager Mark Dukes declares on his blog:
There are ton of rumors going around about the Chrome Horse, most of them revolving around the fact the building is being bulldozed and [...]
I’ve had some e-mails lately from folks outside of CR wondering about the fate of Little Bohemia. Here’s a column I wrote on the bar published today:
The very first beer I drank in this town as a newly minted local was poured from a tap at Little Bohemia, the iconic brick tavern at 1317 Third [...]
Everything, according to this AP piece:
Is everything spinning out of control?
Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism.
Horatio Alger, twist in your grave.
The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded [...]
“Don’t Stare, Help” pretty much sums it up along 3rd Street SE in the flood ravaged New Bohemia neighborhood. Volunteers welcome. Gawkers, not so much.
It’s been tough to explain the flooding to my kids. But once my 6-year-old daughter Tess figured it out, and that kids like her were affected, she got to work.
Last weekend, she picked out two boxes of toys she wants to donate to kids who lost their stuff in the flood. She washed off some [...]
I’m as excited as anyone about President Bush’s flood tour of Eastern Iowa. But I still think it’s worth giving the president some tips on what he should avoid saying as he speaks with locals.
Here are the top 5 things I hope the president does not say:
5. “I think ol’ Gov. Chetie is doing a heckuva [...]
As bad as it is, you still find people counting their blessings.
Take Bryan Moeller. He’s the guy I found last week hopefully mowing his lawn directly across the street from the Time Check levee. He moved into the neighborhood just a few days before the Cedar River turned it into a disaster area.
He got [...]
Legions of downtown business owners converged on the First Ave Parkade parking garage with hopes officials would, as promised, let them go through the skywalk system and have a first look at what the flood wrought.
They first showed up at 11 a.m., but were told that safety inspections and air quality readings had to be done first. They were [...]
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